- Look up commensurability, commensurable, commensurate,
incommensurability, or
incommensurable in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Two
concepts or things...
- an
irrational number, the line
segments are also
described as
being incommensurable,
meaning that they
share no "measure" in common, that is,
there is...
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which one is more
valid or useful. On the
other hand,
theories are
incommensurable if they are
embedded in
starkly contrasting conceptual frameworks whose...
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realization of a
length incommensurable with the unit, such as √2, √3, √5 . For more detail, see
Quadratic irrational.
Incommensurable lengths conflicted with...
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plane and
solid Euclidean geometry,
elementary number theory, and
incommensurable lines.
Elements is the
oldest extant large-scale
deductive treatment...
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their ratio a/b is a
rational number;
otherwise a and b are
called incommensurable. (Recall that a
rational number is one that is
equivalent to the ratio...
- the main form of
distribution of
journal articles since c. 2000, is
incommensurably smaller, than the cost of on-paper
publishing and distribution, which...
- Goldstein,
Bruce Evan (September 2007). "The ****ility of Reason:
Incommensurable Differences Between Sustainability Narratives in the
Aftermath of the...
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differences between items which are po****rly
thought to be
incomparable or
incommensurable, such as
apples and oranges. The
idiom may also
indicate that a false...
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consensus of a
scientific community.
Competing paradigms are
frequently incommensurable; that is,
there is no one-to-one
correspondence of ****umptions and...
